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I just don't even have words. And people look at me like I've got a third arm growing out of my forehead when I tell them that I absolutely support the Second Amendment but wouldn't be caught dead doing a "Carry Rally" or other such thing where there's a chance that some some jackass novice will be fingering his handgun and send a round off into the crowd accidentally. I also don't get what the deal is with these people checking their carry firearms at door of gun shows. I've never done that. My carry weapon isn't going into a show to be sold; It's going into a show on my person should I need it to defend myself. Having some doofus at the door run a zip-tie through the action is counter productive to the intended purpose of my firearm. Worse yet the chance that said doofus will negligently discharge my weapon into his own stupid ass or someone/something nearby. No way in hell am I letting them even handle my carry weapon. If they don't want me carrying there, then I don't want to be patronizing their gun show. GAH!!! Stupid frickin people!!!6 points
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Because it's not truly about safety. It's about what they don't like. They like electric hybrid cars and rainbows and puppies and socialism. They don't like V8 muscle cars, AR-15's or the Constitution.5 points
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Yet another reason I never drink in public. I drink at home, alone. When I leave home I am dead sober and armed. Kinda makes you think huh? Could have been you and the wife in there ten minutes earlier.5 points
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You just need to let me have that and I'll worry with the conversion. It sounds stressful, and I don't want you to have to go through that.4 points
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It's the Bill of Rights... not the Bill of Sh*t This Administration Thinks I Need.4 points
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Thanks for coming to the event guys. I apologize if it was not as big as you expected. We had over 1000 people show up, which is not bad considering that Teri and I started organizing it only about 5 days beforehand. I had many nights of only 3-4 hours of sleep and still had to go to work everyday. For those of you who do not know I am the dude in the black fleece coat behind the speakers in all the pictures. I was able to meet a few of you even though I cannot remember your TGO names (MCurrier was one I think). I got to meet lots of great folks there. It was a real pleasure. The Fox 17 reporter actually got annoyed with me because I kept talking to everyone that came up to thank me and I made him wait for a little while. We believe that this event was a great success and we will be planning more. We have not determined dates or locations yet. So stay tuned for that. Next time, we want to have at least a few weeks to prepare. That way we can get better press exposure and also take better care of the details. The sound was not very good, but I assure you that the next time it will not be an issue. We are already working on that. Thanks again to those of you who attended. Also a very special thanks to the speakers. I will be reaching out to a couple of them again for the next event. Specifically, Joe Carr and Nikki Goeser. Updates will be posted on our Facebook page "Guns Across America - Tennessee".4 points
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I do want to point out that, as I predicted before, the press dutifully finds someone visibly carrying and makes that picture the one they run with. Take away the gun in that photo and there's nothing worth sensationalizing. Just a regular guy dressed in regular clothes holding up a sign at an event. It's not quite as visually impacting as if he'd been standing there with a carbine slung over his shoulder, but we're still not doing a good job of winning the Public Relations war.4 points
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Honestly, this is why I said I am not in favor of every teacher that wants to be armed to be allowed to be. Some people just shouldn't.4 points
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A few days back, in one of his many many speeches, the president was talking about gun control. He made the statement "if we can save only one life....". The first thing that came to my mind was how many lives could we save if he didn't support abortion.3 points
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I was part of an interesting conversation with a liberal friend the other day after someone on the left made a comment about wanting to kill members of the NRA. It wasnt just that we disagreed; it was completely out of their worldview that someone could carry a gun and not feel compelled to use it at any point in time. They made the comment that if they carried a gun, they'd almost certainly be in jail for killing someone. Perhaps one of the reasons they want to ban guns isn't necessarily about us at all. They don't know us. Rather they project themselves onto us, and they don't trust themselves with guns.3 points
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I'm going to deviate from the pack and state that I think this is an absolute nightmare scenario for the manufacturers. They can't build their stuff fast enough, they dare not add more production capacity with the uncertainty of what legislation might come down the pipe in a few more weeks, and they're pretty much running their existing staff 24/7 to keep up with demand which means their workforce is likely already tired and burning out. My guess is that the only companies who are loving this right now are run by greedy fucks who don't care if their company is still around a year from now as long as they can bankroll their retirement in Costa Rica before the government shuts down the party.3 points
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I just don't agree with the highlighted statements and think they make a horrible rebuttal for the question because it opens the door for the antis to start screaming about liability and collateral damage. And for once, they're right. The reason we carry more than 10 rounds in a defensive weapon is because 10 rounds kept on target doesn't always do the job. Let's consider several statements so that you can be better at this the next time someone asks you why you need more than 10 rounds in your magazines: 1.) The purpose of a handgun carried defensively is to stop a threat on your life. We carry handguns because carrying rifles is not convenient and not legal in some jurisdictions. Handguns do not have the same efficiency in terms of ballistics as rifles do. Shorter muzzles and lower muzzle velocities reduce the effectiveness of a handgun-fired bullet significantly. More on that subject here: http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/32380-read-this-before-posting-nonsense-about-the-efficiency-of-handgun-calibers/ 2.) Recognizing that the purpose of a defensive handgun is to stop a threat on your life, and recognizing that a handgun-fired projectile is less effective at stopping that threat than the same projectile fired from a rifle, we now see the need to put MORE rounds on target as fast as we can ACCURATELY do so. But we'll get to that in a minute. The idea here is that if I can't have tremendous terminal ballistics, I want more of a lesser grade to make up for the deficiency. 3.) Bad guys, like wolves, tend to travel in packs. It may take nine rounds to stop the threat presented by one guy jacked up on adrenaline or narcotics or just generally determined to kill you. Now add his pissed-off accomplices into the mix. Do you have nine more rounds for each of them also? The goal here is to have enough ammo in your firearm to ensure that you go home alive. Most of us carry at least one spare magazine on our person as well. If you're not doing that, you should consider taking a good defensive pistol class so that you can sort out reality from what you've imagined it might be like being in a fight for your life. It's eye opening. Now to address the statements you made about missing, and how more accurate LEO's are than civilians: "My answer, A LEO will miss a few times in the heat of a shoot out A everyday firearm owner will miss a bit more in the heat of a shoot out." 1.) Each and every bullet you fire or a cop fires has a lawyer attached to it. Your misses go somewhere and hit something or someone. If you're missing, you need remedial training. A lot of it. 2.) Most LEOs don't qualify on their duty sidearm except once a year. Many of them don't practice on their own the other 364 days a year. A citizen with a carry permit statistically shoots more rounds in practice per year than the average cop. Please don't continue using your original answer to your mom as your answer for why you need more than 10 rounds. It's just a bad argument all the way around.3 points
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Went to the rally today as well. Had an interesting conversation with my wife right before I left the house. Her family is in town to visit our new little girl. Anyways she would have much prefered i stayed home with them today instead, but told me that she wasnt going to ask me to because she had already had the conversation in her head. I asked her how it went and she said well i thought "are you really going to choose going to do a gun thing over spending time with your family". And then she said my reply woud be that "my guns protect my family". She's pretty smart for a registered democrat.3 points
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My wife has decided to carry more often. Yet another reason to buy another quality firearm!2 points
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I am not a very adventurous beer drinker. I usually stick to a couple of domestics that I know that I like. Heard about this beer the other day and found it yesterday. You have to get it liquor stores because it is higher a content beer. It is a nice beer with a hint of bourbon and a nice smokey oak flavor. I really like it.2 points
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I was in Tn on vacation visiting my folks when I google "Nashville shooting range" found two things, CHMR and TGO. Been members of both ever since. Stuck around Charlie's on account of the fact that aside from being the best bargain around, he is one hell of a guy. My brother called me several times in Ca to say that Charlie was asking on me and sent his best. Stuck around TGO because it was immediately apparent that David had created a true community. I've been a member of several forums and for the most part they are essentially popularity contests. Whoever has the highest post count or the snappiest one liners gets his questions answered or his answers taken as gospel. Not at TGO, everyone's thoughts count for something here, and that's impressive in and of itself. Add to that the fact that folks help each other out on a regular basis and what we have here is a true community. I've had the privledge of meeting several folks on here face to face and every time I've walked away feeling as though I've made a friend.2 points
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The fact of the matter is when ignorant fools spend way too much money for something sellers get used to that and it drives up the cost of EVERYTHING for EVERYONE.2 points
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I had this crazy idea that folks there were enough folks who cared about firearms and the Second Amendment in Tennessee that a forum might actually get off the ground. Who knew! :D2 points
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Our society is driven by money. Not many people are going to be ready to overthrow the government or have a civil war when they fully understand the consequences. Our economy might collapses and put us in turmoil, but it won’t be because of gun laws or overthrowing the government. And if you should decide we need a new government I can assure you it will not be the one you have in mind. Look around you.2 points
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I guess I have a problem :). When I see that picture of Cuomo, I just wanna smack him with a big rubber penis. Pretty sick, eh? :)2 points
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I only got two the first time around. I just ordered four more just in case they are banned. Thanks David.2 points
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[quote name="TGO David" post="882732" timestamp="1358013876"]I'll be making stickers. Not going to be making anything else. No offense but that's why I stopped doing swag in the first place. One or two items wasn't enough; soon everyone wanted us to basically have a TGO Pro Shop and all I heard was "If it came in black..." or "If it was a can coozie instead of a key chain..." or "If it came in my size...." so I just f'ing quit doing it. I'm not Wal-Mart. TGO is what I do in the evenings and weekends when I should be spending time with my family. It's not a full time job. It'd [u]have[/u] to be a full time job to do half the crap people want. So... stickers. That's it. Not going to be anything else for the imminent future.[/quote] So a tgo David fathead wall graphic is out of the question? David you deserve this2 points
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Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable. All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind. They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent; His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster. You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart. Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together.... Author unknown...2 points
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How long can a democracy last? In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship." "The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage." The Obituary follows: Born 1776, Died 2012 It doesn't hurt to read this several times. Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election: Number of States won by: Obama: 19 McCain: 29 Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000 Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million McCain: 143 million Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2 McCain: 2.1 Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..." Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase. If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's - and they vote - then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years. Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.. This is truly scary http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120623195959AACx8EF WE HAVE TO STAND AS ONE2 points
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EVERBODY needs to put their broad brush away. I don't know ANY liberal that joined that crowd over gun issues. Most of the ones I know are from professional relationships that were developed over years. They KNOW I'm not the picture that's painted in the media. Sure, they are liberals and get their information from liberal sources. Doesn't mean they won't have an open minded discussion with me. Some of them have brains. I make progress most days. I'm just not as loud as the idiots on CNN2 points
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Well done! Thieves should be dealt with much harsher than they are in our country where criminals' rights supersede victims'.2 points
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This has been more successful than Barrack's "stimulus package", that's for sure.2 points
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Save money and just make the BULLET silver. The case doesn't matter when it comes to werewolves :stick:2 points
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[quote name="6.8 AR" post="890523" timestamp="1358694677"]Doesn't really matter to me. Should I spell out "communist" or "commie". j/k David. Ben Shapiro, haven't read his books, but from his interviews, he claims that the right has claimed the moral high ground too often and needs to quit worrying about how the other side thinks. To win more people into voting we may have to stoop to their level on occasion. I can take that one way or another, but I agree with what he says. His arguments are valid. I'm not sure how over the top I go in my name calling. I guess I should re-read some of my posts.[/quote] I totally get it, when its folks like us talking around folks like us. The people I work with speak Obama's name like it might summon 1,000 years of darkness, but when spoken around folks that don't feel the same it comes off as childish and makes the person speaking look closed minded and ignorant. I think about my liberal in-laws and how they used to say Bush's name like it was a curse word. It used to make me mad and think of them as being ignoramuses, and even if the words following their insults actually made sense, it didn't matter because I already stopped listening.2 points
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Although it's legal to open carry in TN, provided you have an HCP of course, I would never do so, with or without a holster. The only time I'd open carry would somewhere where it's not going to draw undue attention; i.e. gun show, range, etc.. I'm probably going to catch some flack over this, but... with the anti-gun agenda being pushed out by the main stream media, there's no need to add fuel to their already raging fires. I'm not referring to "fear" of the MSM or their sheeple, I'm referring to respect to those who aren't comfortable around guns.2 points
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I don't see this getting better in months, a couple of years maybe. And every shooting from now on will bring more threats of gun bans. This cycle just got started.2 points
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We started preparing months ago. In other words we already had extra food on hand, plenty of blanets, clothes, etc if the power goes off and such. The only thing I did special was take a quick once over through my bob to check on perishables and such because I did not know if I would have to take the hour and half drive to work the next morning, or if I would be stuck there for a day or so. Preparation is a 100% commitment effort that takes place 100% of the time an inch at a time. Little things eventually add up to hey its going to snow, cool instead of OMG we are all going to die! Might have something to do with being raised in the hills of West Virginia though...2 points
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Really? I've never met the guy but seems like a stand up guy (especially with components during the panic buy) and you're too impatient to let him respond after a gun show? I've worked gun shows during 2008/2009 and the last thing I wanted to do was answer more questions after I left there. Cut the guy some slack.2 points
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I am at a loss for words. I hate to give up hope for this country but it is stories like this that makes it hard not to. We have all heard the horror stories of the "zero tolerance" policies gone wrong but this has to be the worst. What have we become when a child playing with what is obviously a child's toy will be punished. And now an innocent child that should be playing is going to be afraid to. This is sick, disgusting and a few more adjectives I can not to say. Dolomite2 points
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treat your carry gun with a don't ask, don't tell mentality. And don't check or touch it at a gun show unless you need to defend yourself. I could not agree more with David's post.2 points
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I think the argument for most is that teachers who already have a carry permit and choose to be armed can do so, but likely with additional training. I would think that most teachers are much better candidates for carry than many of the people I have seen show up at gun shows.2 points
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C'mon guys, he only used the knife to pry the lid open. I'm pretty sure a couple more rubs on the curb & his thumbnail would've worked.2 points
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yeaaahhhh....I can see that sliver of glass in the palm of my hand and a shoe full of port.2 points
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As I am building my 3 day pack I was thinking about multiple fire sources. Anyways, I had the idea to cut straws into 3 pieces and put 3 matches in each. I used hot glue to seal them in. 2 heads up, 1 head down to get the fit right. They are water right, however as you make them you need to make sure you don't have a bubble and that it seals completely. I figured these could be dropped in a couple pockets, they are small and add almost no weight. So far they seem good. I am going to sink a couple in a bowl of water and free it and then let it thaw back out and test them. The 2 long ones on the side, I am seeing if possible to get more matches and anyways, I believe the short with 3 is the best.1 point
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I videoed but haven't edited mine yet. Here's one from another atendee but you have to fast fwd to the 1:10 mark for the start of the event. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QMm4LZdrhrs#t=2s1 point
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Yep. Uneducated, toothless booger digger that got all his knowledge from Fox News and Alex Jones. The NRA needs to start profiling some of their life members. WE know the real makeup of our crowd. The media will NEVER share that. In fact, they'll just lie about it.1 point
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I go the Pilot. I have heard they give free coffee and sodas to LEOs. Very rarely is there not at least one if not two or three LEOs at the Pilot I go to.1 point
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It gives his number and email. I say we contact him with our support. Dolomite1 point
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I've had a few head shaking comments regarding keeping 30,000 rounds of .22lr stash, and about 5,000 of shooting stock. Y'know what, that 30K rounds only cost about a grand, spread out over time too, of course. Ain't nobody headshaking about any size stash of any caliber ammo right now, eh? - OS1 point
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